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Claude Monet Path under rose trellis 1924

My painting TOFINO SKY

@lanebrown_3 @BestNashTransit This common assumption that Christians don’t vote is unsubstantiated and multitudes of people/politicians quote all kinds of stupid surveys.. Do better. Why not say ‘when illegals, criminals and grifters vote and illlegally harvest ballots, Muslims are elected”

When Christians stay home and don’t vote is when Muslims are elected into public office. Let that sink in.

@FOXNashville Nashville is just as corrupt as Minnesota…… Grifting with ngos EVERYWHERE.

Questions are being raised about how millions of dollars allocated for homeless services are being spent in Nashville, with some Metro Council members calling for more transparency. bit.ly/4rR9A8u

RE: Data Republican I am a huge Data Republican (small r) (“DR”) fan. I know many of you are as well. But I’m not sure everyone fully understands the sheer bravery, brilliance and audacity of this deaf every-woman. You see, the government you elect is not what actually governs you. For every area of government (no matter how specialized or arcane), there are powerful lobbying groups, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations ("NGOs"), specialized media outlets, university-sponsored centers and other ostensibly "independent" organizations that act and behave as an unaccountable form of government outside the reaches of the electoral process. While these organizations claim to act in the public interest, each and everyone of them is a self-serving oligarchy that is designed solely to promote the interests of those on the inside--genuine public interest be damned. This is America of course, and freedom of speech and freedom of association are fundamental to our freedoms. However, over many decades, these organizations have found “legal” ways to obtain trillions of your taxpayer dollars in the form of “grants” for “studies,” “policy symposiums” and all manner of other taxpayer-funded activities designed specifically to circumvent the policies the American people VOTED FOR and to perpetuate policies and activities that the average American has explicitly rejected. These activities occur on both the Left and the Right, of course, but over time they have become the near exclusive domain of the Left. These organizations serve as taxpayer/Soros-funded, income-generating activities for Leftists whenever they are out of power, and if/when Leftists seize control of the Presidency or Congress, these organizations are the proverbial bullpens from which powerful Leftists full of the ideas you thought you once eliminated can storm right back into the actual process of governance, implementing all of those dark and mysterious policies that your tax dollars were secretly funding while the Leftists were otherwise off howling in the wilderness. Call it the Deep State. Call it unconstitutional. Call it theft of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Call it the evil of the Soros family. Call it what ever you will, but know this—it is a monstrous Leviathan sitting right outside the scope of your votes, dedicated to negating your votes at your own expense, in the most diabolical manner possible. It is the state outside the state. It is self-serving. It does not care about you. It only cares about itself. And its power is VAST. You see it right here on X—you see the swarms of fire ants that come spilling out with destruction in mind whenever anyone uncovers the anthill they are lurking under. And right at the heart of that is our hero, DR. I have been actively following politics virtually my entire life, and never before has there been anyone quite like DR. Through dispassionate data analysis, the smart use of AI and a relentless drive for fairness and justice, DR has done more to shine a light on the nature of this extra-governmental Leviathan than any other person I can ever recall. For her efforts, she has been doxxed by a mendacious Rolling Stone article. She has endured a concerted effort to destroy her husband’s totally unrelated business. She and her husband have received LITERALLY THOUSANDS of death threats. She and her family had to go into hiding. An ordinary woman would have backed down in fear. But not DR. They just made her mad. And an angry genius is an enemy no one wants to face. She still stares them down, day in and day out. Her book will be out soon. Buy it. Buy copies for your friends. Buy copies and leave them on street corners and airport tables. AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH. DR’s book may well end up being the most important and influential American book on politics since “Common Sense." If America is going to survive, we must ALL shine a bright light on this extra-governmental Leviathan, grab a hold of its fangs, and drain the venom out of them. This is not playtime people. This is life and death. We glorify the warrior who does great deeds on the battlefield, as we should. But know that bravery comes in many forms, and as DR has stood in the fire and endured real threats to her life and existence, her audacious bravery is every bit as real as those heroes we see being decorated by the President. Right now, in the USA, no unelected person is doing more to ensure freedom than Data Republican. You can support her by subscribing to her account, but you can also support her by being as brave as she is. I aspire to maybe show such bravery myself some day. We all should aspire to that. One day she will earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Together we can defeat The Beast.

John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit and spent the rest of his life writing devastating critiques of the educational system he had mastered. Gatto argued that regardless of the official curriculum, schools actually teach seven hidden lessons. The first is confusion. Students learn disconnected facts across dozens of subjects with no integration or meaning. The second is class position. Students learn their place in the social hierarchy. The third is indifference. Students learn that nothing is worth finishing because the bell always rings. The fourth is emotional dependency. Students learn to surrender their will to a chain of command. The fifth is intellectual dependency. Students learn to wait for experts to tell them what to think. The sixth is provisional self-esteem. Students learn that their worth depends on expert evaluation. The seventh is that they are always being watched and have no privacy. These lessons, Gatto argued, are the actual function of schooling. The explicit curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic is almost incidental. The real purpose is to produce passive, dependent, compliant citizens who wait for authorities to tell them what to do and think. Trad schooling amounts to thirteen years of training in being passive and dependent. I have seen this play out with hundreds of students. When I created Montessori middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, about half the students came up through Montessori elementary and about half came from public schools. When we opened, the Montessori kids immediately began doing their work, taking initiative, choosing what to tackle first. The public school students were lost. They would stare at their desks until we walked over and helped them plan their morning. It took at least a semester, sometimes a full year, before they could function in an environment that asked them to direct their own learning. These were not less intelligent children. They had simply been trained differently. For years, someone else had made all the decisions about what they would do, when they would do it, and how they would do it. When that structure was removed, they did not know how to operate. Agency is natural to children unless we train it out of them. When I coach parents on evaluating their children's education, I tell them to ignore grades entirely. The question is whether their children are taking initiative, being responsible, and becoming empowered moral beings. If a child is getting straight A's but has no initiative and no sense of personal responsibility, that child is being damaged by their education regardless of how it looks on paper.

Remember one of the world's largest aquifers sits underneath Nebraska. It's draining at a rate of 3 ft a year. Industrial monoculture fully intends to suck out every last drop and turn the great plains into one giant desert. Zero chance this system exists in 2050.

@labwrs @arealmofwonder Yes, there are a couple of places like that for me. One is in the pacific north west, one is in eastern England, I don’t think we were quite in wales. It is eerie, took me a while to process what that feeling was.

@arealmofwonder @CircusIsCalling I learned this word 30 yrs ago when I took a 10 day solo trip to mid- North Wales. I swear I felt it too. I really felt as though I'd been there before. It was eerie

It's so real...

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart. Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel. A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states. A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely. Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help. The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives. A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently. In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.

America isn’t running out of land. It’s just being reorganized. Not just housing. Look closer: Midwest farmland consolidating at scale, timber + water rights getting bundled, data centers clustering around cheap power in northern Virginia and central Texas, transmission corridors quietly deciding what land actually matters. It’s a clear pattern. Food. Energy. Water. Compute. And the people securing it aren’t loud about it. The average American sees rising prices. They don’t see that control is concentrating underneath them. Bill Gates alone owns ~270,000 acres of U.S. farmland. But not really the story. It’s just a clue. The real story is how many others are doing it quietly… you know the ones you’ve never heard of.

Hardest pill the West refuses to swallow. The US military won’t even take 82 IQ for cannon fodder — untrainable, unusable, dangerous. Yet we’re importing 60 IQ populations at scale. This isn’t “diversity.” It’s demographic suicide. Reverse it NOW or the data says game over.

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

FYI: Margaret Brennan's husband is a Muslim who served in the US military. He thinks Sharia law is democratic. Seriously. Now you know why Brennan wrote this snarky tweet about SecDef Hegseth "invok[ing] Jesus' name." Her husband was no doubt offended. Now you also know Brennan's POV/agenda on CBS's "Face the Nation"

Well, @JenniferSey does it AGAIN. I’m definitely not crying. It’s dust in my eye. Maybe you have dust in your eye too. My heart goes out to this young woman. Imagine a world where you don’t think fair is even possible. 😢

TRIGGER WARNING: The lawlessness that we are seeing happen across Memphis is caused overwhelmingly by one demographic: black teenagers. Last night on Beale Street there were at least two separate shootings. A mob of some 200 black teens caused mayhem in the $60 million Tom Lee Park before heading to Beale Street. Business owners on Beale tell me there were fights and stampedes all over downtown. At several had to shut down their establishments early because of the violence. The black preachers, black business leaders and black elected leaders need to have a "Come to Jesus" conversation with the citizens of Memphis. Enforce the curfew. Arrest parents who allow their children to break curfew. God only knows much worse last night could have been without the Memphis Safe Task Force. We don't need any more community centers or athletic fields or basketball courts. We need moms and dads to step up and starting parenting. We'll be happy to supply hickory switches and/or belts. And we need a district attorney's office that will fight crime instead of treating the criminals like victims. The time for dancing around this issue with politically correct jargon is over.

@labwrs @Huff4Congress Yes. So many irreplaceable buildings and wonders.

@Huff4Congress @CircusIsCalling Chartres!: We had 2 stained glass windows made there by a family who'd been in the business for generations. They're gorgeous. It would be a crime if that incredible cathedral is ever damaged or destroyed. Those flying buttresses are an engineering marvel!

My grandchildren will likely never be able to visit these buildings, which may or may not still exist, because Germany, France, and the United Kingdom made the conscious decision to replace their native populations with violent retards from the third world. I do not understand.

C.S. Lewis wrote science fiction about a quarantined planet ruled by a fallen angel Not Narnia

At today's New England Masters Swim meet, Penny Noyes set a 100IM national record. The New England Masters Swim Committee celebrated her win with a post. It was removed at the alleged direction of the Chair, Jason Weis. The shirt, right? Congrats to Penny Noyes.

@JamesHu27192912 Ugh

Already an we still have snow on the ground